St. Paul daily globe., 1887-01-19
STATE FRUIT GROWERS.
First Days Session OF the state ESOr
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First Days Session of the State ssOr.
ticulturists' twentieth Annual
Meeting.
The first days session Of the twentieth an
nual meeting of the State horticultural So
eiety was held at the capitol building yester-
day, with President Wyman Elliott in the
chair. The morning session was occupied in
arranging the exhibits of fruits and vege-
tables entered for the premiums offered by
the society. Many different varieties of
apples and grapes and other fruits were re-
ceived. In the AFTERNOON Prof. b. S. Magin-
mis-, of the ST. Paul q rmer, delivered an ad-
dress Of welcome TO the visiting delegates,
which was responded to by S. Nj. Owen, of the
Farm, Stock and Home Journal. Minneapolis
Reports were tnen read by the secretaries of
various local societies, and interesting letters
by the secretary from members of similar
organizations of other states. e. S.
Darrt of 0watonna, read paper entitled,
''Cod is King-How Modified in the Cold
Northwest" Mr.. Dart had evidently given
his subject ample study and made many
valuable suggestions as 10 the most favora-
BILE locations Tor growing apples and other
fruit Mr.. Darth's paper brought forth con-
siderable discussion upon the best localities
for raising fruit; some of the delegates TAX
iGg the position that elevated land was the
Test, and others declaring their preference
torslowiands. j. I. Grimes. who was one of
the assistant superintendents at the state
fair, read paper Oh tue We. etable exhibit. in
which he took occasion TO urge the necessity
for more competent judges for exhibits Of
fered at state fairs. a paper by Charles A.
Keffer on the subject of Russian apples at the
fair, brought forth a lengthy discussion.
Every apple grower present told OF his eXpe-
rieuces with the Russian varieties and it was
interesting 10 note the different results at
tanned in different soils and climate.
THE EVENING SESSION
At the evening session President Elliott
read his annual address. Mr.. Elliott dwelt at
some length upon the subject of IA lag ap-
pies in Minnesota, and the climatic difficulties
to be overcome. He urged the superntend-
ent OF public instruction and the board of
state schools of horticulture. Mr.. Elliott re-
viewed the work of the society during the
twenty years of its existence. and made
numerous recommendations for the future
work 10 be done by the society. He called
upon all horticalturists in the state, who are
not now members of the society, to
send in their applications for men,
bership at once, as an increased
membership and more enthusiasm on the part
OF the members was necessary to the socety's
success. Mr.. Pearce, of Minneapolis de-
livered an interesting address on the pruning
and training of the grape vine, illustrating his
talk with crayon sketches. The secreta
aead paper from the president of the Iowa
Horticultural society, and the meeting closed
after some discussion of the papers by the
fruit growers present. The lecture of Pres
ident Cyrus Northrop, of the State university,
on the "Kotation of Agriculture" an
nouneed for Thursday night viii be deliv-
cred before the society Tonight In the cham
Der used by the house of rep presentatives.
The meeting adjourned last n ight until
o'clock this morning.